I love this CD. I've been listening to it off and on for about a week now.

I think Frantic, Monster, Invisible Kid, and Shoot Me Again are great. And some of the other tracks are probably good too, but I haven't given them fair time yet because I keep skipping to those four.

I've been reading through this thread. Two things strike me odd.

1) This thread started as an off-topic on this board, and it is relatively lengthy, but it has not turned into a fight about religion or politics, or name calling, which is rare. Could it be that music is a respected difference, or is it that just the real bitches aren't chiming in to this particular thread?

2) Why do a lot of people think that the stuff that Metallica does at this day and age has to sound like "Ride The Lightening" to be considered good?

To those people: the early Metallica was great stuff, but so is their other stuff. Why can't they change? Their old stuff is their yardstick? In my opinion, their later work, and their most recent, doesn't suck, it's just different. Why are you latched on to just those four albums? Music is much broader than that. Do you think that Megadeth sucks? What about Bad Company? What about Satriani? David Sanborn? Rush? Chicago? 311? Enya? What about ZZ Top? They're commercial. I don't get it.

Somebody said something about Metallica cutting their hair. You think Metallica cut their hair way back when to become more “mainstream”? Maybe they did, so what? That makes their music bad? I used to have long hair but I cut it and now my hair is short. I did it because it became a pain in the ass and it was hot. Now it's not.

You know, some of you sound kind of like this, “down with commercialization, man, down with the establishment, man, that shit keeps us down, man, they're trying to take our freedom, man, music's got to be free, man.” You sound like the hippy on that episode of the Simpsons (Ned Flanders' dad). OK, I know, you're probably not a hippy. You're a person that likes metal (okay, only “non-commercial” metal, right?). But you sound purposefully anti-something, and almost to a fault, much in the same way as the hippy. To those that don't relate fully, it's amusing. That's why it was on the Simpsons.

I have an old girlfriend that likes only “dance music”. Nothing else. It has to have a dance beat, a disco-y sound, to be good. She doesn't like anything else. I feel sorry for her when she can't get into any of the other types of music that I listen to. All of her radio stations are tuned to talk and news stations.